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A62
sports
Guardian www.guardian.co.tt Tuesday, April 28, 2015
T&T s
men s
Olympic team will
kick off their qualify-
ing campaign for the
2016 Olympics with a
Group 4 Caribbean
Football Union Qual-
ifying match against
Suriname in Puerto
Rico on June 24.
The fixtures,
released by the CFU
shows T&T in Group
F along with hosts
Puerto Rico, Suriname
and the winner of the
Dominica versus St
Vincent/Grenadines
tie.Only the winner of
the group will advance
to the CFU Final
Round in August from
which the top two
teams will move on to
the CONCACAF Final
round in the United
States in October.
T&T s Olympic
team was to begin
preparations at the
Hasely Crawford Sta-
dium in Port-of-Spain
yesterday morning
under head coach
Zoran Vranes.
The former T&T
senior team and
Under-20 head coach
believes T&T can move
into the CONCACAF
phase but wants his
players to know the
qualification campaign
will be no easy task.
"Well you can see
it s not going to be an
easy ride at all. Only
one team will come
out of our group and
we are playing away
from home. Okay, we
know all of these
teams from the past
but football is always
played one the day," he
said.
"But our players
have the experience
and the capability to
beat these teams. They
will have to focus from
the start and take that
through to the entire
campaign. Qualifying
for the Olympic games
is a great achievement
and every country
wants to be there. This
is like a World Cup
because the football
tournament at the
Olympics has a lot of
significance as well."
The CFU also
released the fixtures for
the Women s Olympic
qualifiers. T&T is in
Group 2 from August
21-25-. T&T will open
the group against Cay-
man Islands on August
21. They will also face
St Lucia on August 23
and Antigua/Barbuda
on August 25.
The winners of the
four preliminary
groups will advance to
the CFU Finals in
October. The top three
teams will then enter
the final CONCACAF
round (dates and
country to be deter-
mined) which will
involved a final eight
teams from which the
top two will advance
to the Olympics.
Sunrisers Hyderabad s all-
international attack defended a
moderate total so well Kings XI
Punjab looked out just after the
halfway mark of the chase. Wrid-
dhiman Saha sparked a revival,
but Trent Boult justified playing
ahead of Dale Steyn again,
removing the keeper and Axar
Patel in a decisive 18th over. A
victory margin of 20 runs showed
just how far behind Kings XI s
top order had fallen.
The pace and swing of Boult
was followed by the control of
Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Praveen
Kumar, barring an expensive open-
ing over. That was followed by
lack of pace from Moises Hen-
riques and tight legspin from Karn
Sharma, providing Kings XI no
release.
Boult kickstarted Sunrisers
defence when he swung one in
full to bowl Manan Vohra - playing
instead of Virender Sehwag - off
the inside edge in the third over.
The next and bigger strike came
off the inside edge too, when
Shaun Marsh played the wrong
line off Bhuvneshwar in the fourth
over.
George Bailey counter-attacked
briefly, hitting Praveen for three
fours in an over, but when he failed
to clear mid-off against Henriques
in the eighth over, Kings XI had
slipped to 45 for 3.
That became 53 for 4, as David
Miller misjudged a call for two and
M Vijay failed to return in time.
Miller could not make up for that
error, swinging Karn to long-off
in the 13th over to leave Sunrisers
on72for5.
Dropped twice in three balls,
Saha, along with Axar, fought back,
the pair adding 44 in 4.5 overs.
Praveen, Henriques and Bhuvnesh-
war went for runs in three suc-
cessive overs as the equation came
down to 35 needed off 18 balls.
That was when Boult stepped
up again. Axar backed away first
ball of the over, and found his leg
stump uprooted with a yorker. As
he usually does, Saha had relied
on the pull during his 42 but Boult
hurried one onto him, and square
leg took the catch. The over went
for just seven, including four off
Saha s leg when he missed an
attempted scoop. Bhuvneshwar
and Praveen were too good for the
lower order.
The lower half of Sunrisers
innings had tapered off again after
David Warner s fourth fifty in seven
innings this season. Warner had
taken 46 of his 58 runs in bound-
aries. Even as the batsmen at the
other end struggled, Warner kept
making room and smearing
boundaries through the off side.
(ESPNcricinfo)
George Bailey plays into the leg side, Kings XI Punjab v Sunrisers Hyderabad, IPL 2015, Mohali, on Monday.
PHOTO: BCCI
JELANI BECKLES
Many top national youth play-
ers will be on show today when
Central faces North in the BG
T&T Under-19 two-day Interzone
final at the National Cricket Cen-
tre in Balmain, Couva, from 10
am.
Both teams advanced to the final
after winning first innings points
in the semifinals, which was played
on April 6 and 7. At Inshan Ali
Park, North defeated South on first
innings to book a spot in the final.
North posted 188 batting first then
restricted South to 148, before
North made 227 in the second
innings. South did not get the
opportunity to bat a second time
as time ran out. In the other semi-
final at the National Cricket Cen-
tre, Central scored 354 and 95/4,
while East made 243 in the first
innings.
Posting a huge first innings total
may be critical if the final ends in
a draw. North will look towards
Brandon Maharaj, who cracked 107
in the second innings in the semi-
finals. Maharaj represented the
national Under-17 team last year.
However, North will hope that Jor-
dan Warner can find some form
as the former national Under-17
batsman made duck in both
innings in the semifinals.
The northerners will aim to get
the wicket of Saiba Batoosingh
cheaply, as the former national U-
15 batsman has been racking up
the runs this season, including a
knock of 128 in the semifinals.
Batoosingh was the vice-captain
of the national U-15 team which
won the West Indies Cricket Board
Regional U-15 tournament in
Jamaica in 2013.
Some of the other national
youth players in the Central squad
include Bryan Boodram, Jarlarnie
Seales, Varindra Jagrup and Crys-
tian Thurton. Boodram and Jagrup,
two former national U-17 captains,
scored 63 (first innings) and
grabbed 4/57 (first innings) respec-
tively in the semifinals.
Zoran Vranes
WOMEN'S SCHEDULE
Aug 21
St Lucia vs Antigua & Barbuda
T&T vs Cayman Islands
Aug 23
Antigua & Barbuda vs Cayman Islands
T&T vs St Lucia
Aug 25
Cayman Islands vs St Lucia
T&T vs Antigua & Barbuda
MEN'S SCHEDULE
June 24
Suriname vs T&T
Puerto Rico vs Dominica/St Vincent &
Grenadines
June 26
T&T vs Dominica/St Vincent &
Grenadines
Puerto Rico vs Suriname
June 28
Dominica/St Vincent & Grenadines vs
Suriname
Puerto Rico vs T&T
T&T Olympic men's provisional squad: Montell Joseph, Johan Sample, Aaron
Enill, Christopher Biggette, Josiah Trimmingham, Martieon Watson, Brandon
Creed, Shannon Gomez, Maurice Ford, Leland Archer, Aikim Andrews, Akeem
Garcia, Levi Garcia, Kion Joseph, Kevon Goddard, Kishun Seecharan, Neveal
Hackshaw, Duane Muckette, Matthew Wooling, Ricardo John, Brent Sam,
Kadeem Corbin, Jesus Perez, Alvin Jones, Neil Benjamin, Dario Holmes, Glen
Sutton, Jomal Williams, Shackiel Henry, Keane Mc Ivor, Greg Ranjitsingh, Calib
Sturge, Triston Hodge, Jelani Felix, Dwight Quintero, Nathanial Garcia, Jelani
Peters, Akeem Redhead, Jabari Mitchell
SCHEDULE
Boult leads Sunrisers'
successful defence of 150
SCORES
Sunrisers Hyderabad 150
for 6 (Warner 58, Axar 2-25)
beat Kings XI Punjab 130 for
9 (Saha 42, Boult 3-19) by
20 runs.
North, Central clash in U-19 final
Olympic
men open
qualifiers vs
Suriname
...Women face Cayman Islands